Chip’s practice focuses on representing clients before State and Federal Courts in complex civil litigation, and before the Virginia State Corporation Commission in regulatory matters. Chip practices in the firm's Richmond office. He has over 30 years’ experience representing individuals and small, medium and large-sized companies in State and Federal Courts in Virginia and across the country. He has handled cases involving environmental contamination, aircraft product liability, consumer products product liability, commercial disputes arising from contracts and leases, and business tort claims. Chip has also handled litigated matters, including rate cases and large-asset purchase applications, before the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

Chip is admitted to practice in the US District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, and the US Courts of Appeals for the Second and Fourth Circuits.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 1984

BA, English and Politics, Washington and Lee University, magna cum laude, 1981

• First chair trial experience in state and federal trial courts. 
• Extensive experience in state and federal courts throughout the United States in offensive and defensive discovery (depositions, with particular emphasis on defense of corporate executives and taking/defending experts on scientific issues, document discovery and discovery motion practice). 
• Coordinating defense of product liability actions throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Australia and Israel for a major US multinational client. 
• Extensive experience with, and knowledge of, leading "in-country" product liability counsel throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Australia and Israel. 
• Extensive experience in rules of procedure and substantive law governing civil tort actions throughout various national jurisdictions of Eastern and Western Europe, Australia and Israel. 
• Litigated largest defamation action ever filed in United States.

• Member, Virginia State Bar
• Chair, Virginia State Bar Special Committee on Access to Legal Services
• Member, Virginia Bar Association
• Member, Federal Bar Association
• Member, Board of Directors, Central Virginia Legal Aid
• Member, Board of Directors, Legal Aid Justice Center
• Chair, HomeAgain Board of Directors

• Fellow, The Virginia Law Foundation, 2014
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 1999-2018. A description of the selection methodology can be found on Best Lawyers’ webpage. 
• Virginia State Bar Professionalism Faculty, 2011-2014
• National Trial Advocacy College Faculty, 2008 – Current
• Richmond Bar Association Pro Bono Publico Award, 1990